# KAssistant Tutorial

René
Beutler

    rbeutler@g26.ethz.ch

12/01/1999
1.00.00

This is a quick introduction to KAssistant, the Help Assistant.

KDE
KDE Help Center

## Congratulations !

Welcome to the Help Assistant!

This is an easy way to find answers to your questions and familiarize yourself with the basics.

Quick Introduction:

You can click on everything which is underlined like this: Just test it!

If you can see this page, it means that you can use an hypertext system !

Click on another underlined link.

## How to lock the screen

There are 4 ways to lock the screen:

1. Click on the lockButton in the panel.

2. Click on a empty space on your root window and press the right mouse button. A popup-menu will appear. Now click on 'Lock screen'.

3. Just do it right now.

4. Experts: Enter the command `klock` in a shell.You can get a prompt pressing `Alt-F2`

## My window disappeared. Where did it go?

With many graphical user interfaces, the iconfy button will erase the window that the program is running in and create, instead, an icon on the desktop. KDE does not do this.

Instead, when a window is ``iconified'', it is simply hidden (but the program is still running).

There are two ways to get the window back:

1. If you're running the taskbar part of kpanel, you can choose to have a list of tasks displayed on your desktop. Iconified tasks have their names surrounded by parenthesis.

2. If you click the middle mouse button on an empty space in the root window, kwm will give you a list of all available tasks (and again, the names of iconified tasks are bracketed).